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People in the News: Kathy Hibbs, Thomas Brown, Amalio Telenti, More

Cadex Genomics: Kathy Hibbs
Cadex Genomics has appointed Kathy Hibbs as an independent director. Hibbs is currently chief legal and regulatory officer at 23andMe. Prior to joining 23andMe, Hibbs served as senior VP and general counsel at Genomic Health. Hibbs has also served in similar roles at Monogram Biosciences and Varian Medical Systems.


Syapse: Thomas Brown
Syapse has hired Thomas Brown as chief medical officer. He also will be the primary liaison to regulatory agencies. Brown, an oncologist and cancer researcher, previously served as executive director of the Swedish Cancer Institute at Providence St. Joseph Health in Seattle.


Caris Life Sciences: Amalio Telenti, Brian Rubin, Holden Maecker, and Hamilton Moses

Caris Life Sciences has added four members — Amalio Telenti, Brian Rubin, Holden Maecker, and Hamilton Moses — to its scientific advisory board.

Telenti is chief data scientist and head of computational biology at Vir Biotechnology. He was previously a professor of genomics in the department of integrative structural and computational biology at Scripps Research, as well as chief data scientist at the Scripps Research Translational Institute. Telenti also serves on advisory boards for the University of Lausanne's Center for Integrative Genomics, the Institute Pasteur Shanghai at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Swiss Personalized Health Network.

Rubin is chair of the Robert J. Tomsich Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, as well as a professor of pathology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.

Maecker is a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University and director of Stanford's Human Immune Monitoring Center.

Moses is a professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a life sciences management consultant, working through a company, Alerion Advisors, which he founded in 2002. He has also advised corporations, hospitals, foundations, and governments as a partner and senior advisor at the Boston Consulting Group. Moses previously served as chief physician and chief operating officer of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, interim chief of psychiatry of the Partners Health Care System and McLean Hospital in Boston, and professor of business at the Darden School of the University of Virginia.


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